Let’s Do Something for CPS

Zi Hao
Annie

Chicago Public Schools are a place for everyone. With 613 elementary and high schools, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system is the largest public elementary and secondary educational system in Illinois. However, if you graduated from a public school in Chicago, you would feel the CPS has so many things to improve. If CPS improves the instructional facilities, the quality of teaching and leadership, and the learning communities, the students would have a good environment to study in CPS.

There are 47 million youth in the US, and there are thousands high school students in Chicago Public School system. In this ratio, I think the instructional capacity is not enough space to offer a good environment for Chicago’s students. The crowded classrooms seem like closets, and the teacher’s offices are very small. As we can see, student’s library just collected some old books so we think the government could develop their library or active space. In addition, the quality of teaching and leadership needs to be improved. Because of the city's large foreign-born population, the school system employs bilingual teachers in 20 languages. It sounds good, but how about the quality of teaching and leadership in those 613 elementary and high schools? Nowadays, some of the teachers still have rooms for improve their teaching level. Maybe the teacher’s major and degree is outdated for students. There are twenty percent youth in Chicago were dropouts. That means one of every five youth is a high school dropout. Finally, the learning communities and professional development are the most important part for student. In education circles, the learning community has become standard; Student could learn life experiences from each other, such as extending classroom practice into community, so they can gain more knowledge in their life. For example, let students to lecture in front of class. It can learn about facing stressful situations, and control their feeling. Live experience can help you know about the city, like high school student needs to volunteer in their spare time. This is a part of live experience. Moreover, the professional development could decide the student’s career. Every student has specialized in their own favorite major, and teacher can give them more opportunity to exert it. Also, it is important to bring the personnel community into the school to enhance the curriculum and let students learn tasks more interest. Otherwise, teacher and administrators can learn simultaneously during in class.

CPS is most important for teenagers. If the CPS improves the instructional facilities, the quality of teaching and leadership, and the learning communities, student would have a good environment to study. We need a hand from all of you to improve this situation, so teenagers can have got better student life. Don’t you think we have to do this for our children? Let them have better education starting from CPS.